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While I initially assumed the same, I think 0x10c could possibly evolve into a state that allows even casual players to be able to jump in without getting involved in the geekier aspects.

For instance it be possible to have a Minecraft-esque gameplay mechanic on the planets and, as a player, to acquire through some in-game currency a pre-designed spacecraft created by others. So it could be played as an ordinary space trading game to an extent. In this form it'd be an extension of Minecraft.

For others, I can see guilds being set up around exploitation of the programmable computers onboard spacecraft, with guilds developing their own encrypted communications protocols and attempting to break those of their competitors while still engaging in standard space game warfare with the added extra of electronic warfare. This is far geekier, but it has scope for players of varying skill levels occupying different roles without having to learn how to program the DCPU-16. This would be a sort of EVE Online scenario.

There are other combinations that would be available, given a big enough community, a way to exchange items and the right gameplay dynamic. If Mojang gets that right and sells it right then 0x10c may potentially become a huge hit.

Of course what I've described is ambitious in what's required from the game and there are a million things that could go wrong and make it too hard to make a game with this breadth and flexibility. The odds are against Notch and his team, but if they do succeed I think it'll be epic.

Let's not forget that to an outside observer Minecraft is very geeky and quite confusing. It's a game without any gaming like most are used to, yet over time interest snowballed and non-gamers got into it based on recommendations. I hope the same could happen with 0x10c.
I love the pervasive myth that you don't need electricity to use a landline phone in 2012.
You're more likely to have a working cell phone (generator @ the tower) than a working phone line in an area with FTTH (say, Verizon FIOS deployments, or cable co. VOIP deployments). Sure, the PON and gear has a battery backup, but it doesn't last anywhere near as long as the generator at the cell tower, or the battery in my cellphone.
Remote disable is a killer feature that the lockbox has never really achieved.
I've used PHP-GTK, and it's not bad, and I don't want to rain on your parade, but there's a reason this list is empty:

http://gtk.php.net/apps/
During the last XCode beta, I was playing around with the iPhone simulator and using a proxy I saw the server would respond to geocoding requests with an 'application/x-protobuf' header. That header has since been removed, but the data is still encoded the same (comparing the same request before and after). I was going to try to figure out the RPC encoding method Apple's using, but I lost motivation after reading that they are rate-limiting the API, making it less useful to me.
I've stopped trying to figure out w.t.f. is going on at Microsoft with their phone these days. It's hard for me to imagine a more clownshoes couple of years.
I sent out the notification from my @heroku.com email, and not from an auto mailer. We have the capability and do send out system wide emails, but I wanted to personally field any questions or concerns directly.

No one has indicated that they cannot migrate their app at all. A few have told me that they are not the original developers, but we haven't run into that exact situation. We do have http://partners.heroku.com available for contract if someone truly was non-technical. Even then, the experience of hiring contractors for a few hours to work on an app that has been running for the last 4+ years shouldn't be too bad.

Even in microsoft's case, longer support lifetimes still don't mean infinite support lifetimes. People still need to migrate and un-necessarily prolonging the migration can make it much-much harder.

To read up more on our deprecation and sunsetting policies check out my last blog post: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/9/24/sunsetting-and-dep...
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How is this different than Google making its own phones?
Coming from the .NET world, the single biggest problem I have seen with PHP developers is their lack of life cycle concept understanding. This will probably prove to be the most challenging part when PHP developers start to engage with singletons, IoC etc. For example any .NET developer would laugh/cry with this: http://www.slideshare.net/go_oh/singletons-in-php-why-they-a...
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This is a difficult issue. For most of us, our cell phone is where our body is, so you're tracking the person. It is easy to imagine ways that this data could be abused.

On the other hand turn it around. Suppose that there was a rash of burglaries and you were the investigating officer. Wouldn't you want to be able to find all cell phones that were in proximity to a significant number of the burglaries at the time that they happened? This kind of speculative data mining could be a good source of leads, but you can't engage in it unless you have a lot of data on a lot of innocent people. (And, as always with data mining, until you have the data, you don't know what questions you want to ask of it.)

But the problem is that if the data is centralized and accessible, the minority who would abuse it will access it as well. And the worse abusers are people like Hoover and Nixon - people who will use this data to try to push political aims.
I'd love to see you write a detailed case study defense of PhP...even though I realize it's kind of a raw deal to be expected to mount a formal defense for your own profession, especially given how much it gets trolled. But from the non-PHP fan's perspective, PHP persists because it has a strong foothold, not because it is clearly a more secure and enjoyable language.

It doesn't help that PHP's ubiquity has attracted its fair share of bad programmers. Maybe not more than other languages, but the human mind, when lacking available data, will make judgments based on absolute count (I.e. I know more terrible PhP programmers than I know terrible Go coders) rather than by ratio.

I started with PHP and did not enjoy the syntax, though I doubt I would be in web dev had PHP's stack on Dreamhost made it easy to make my first interactive apps. But I could never say that its conventions are conducive to good coding habits...but I have no place to judge, as I was a bad coder when I learned PhP and I may have been just as bad were I to start out with Python.
The navigation menu is technically really clean and easy to move through. Problem is: click on a link and it's gone.

This nav/subnav system suggests hierarchy, like it's a snapshot of the sitemap. But what it actually is, is a portal. A simple portal to external dedicated websites to almost all their products.

Microsoft has 2 options:

1. make one huge consistent website for all their products
2. make microsoft.com look like what it really is: a portal

It's really confusing.
You're absolutely right. They chose compression over quality to load as many concurrent calls per tower (CDMA, mind you) as tolerable. It used to be (maybe still is) that on the Motorola Razr v3m you could drop into a programming menu, and force the handset to use the higher bitrate vocoder, whereas the towers would request use of the lower bitrate vocoder. Around Chicago, in 2000, for example, Sprint CDMA was indistinguishable from a landline, likely because the towers were telling handsets to encode with the high bitrate.
I probably should have been a bit more clear about what I meant. I meant that HN's purpose isn't to directly generate revenue for YC. Quora, on the other hand, is supposed to be a product that makes money.
Before Heroku, "just works... for a long, long time" meant "for a few weeks until the database goes down, or the firewall needs to be patched, or, something," and you have to bring in a $150/hour consultant to figure out what went wrong.

If you paid Heroku an enterprise-level $10k/month for "just works, for a long, long time", I'm sure they'd gladly dispatch a Rails' consultant to handle the migration for you, and you'd never hear about it.

$50/month does not buy you "works for next 3 decades" technology. A business owner would gladly take "3 hours of stack migration every few years" over requiring a high-dollar consultant every few weeks, especially since the consultant probably comes with a retainer he has to pay whether he has problems or not.

[also, I'm sure the personal account was a bob@heroku.com address, vs a support@heroku.com address.]
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Really? Looks to me like the lookup function is invoking recursion here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie#Algorithms

I would think the amortized cost would be O(log_b n), with b being something like the Shannon entropy of each symbol.
So what happens when a packet is sent when you're in sleep mode? Does the device have to renegotiate the connection when waking up?

What if you sold a separate device that plugged in the wall and had a constant wifi connection, then used BT4 for communicating with the lock powered by 4xAA? Then you wouldn't even need wifi on the lock.

Also, why an arduino mega? Are you using that many I/O pins or is it because your code needs the 256KB of flash?
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Seems like they already kicked Nokia in the face by giving HTC rights to call their 8X and 8S "Windows Phone" and basically saying it's their flagship at that event a few weeks ago. Wouldn't at all be surprised to see them make their own; they're already making their own tablet, so it's not like it's a big stretch.
I see your point, there are likely just as many people who consider being male an advantage, as there are people who consider being female to be an advantage in this situation. The only person(s) who actually knows why she got the internship and he didn't is/are the person(s) making that decision. Frankly I'm more concerned with her self-doubt than I am with his lack of tack. If you aren't going to believe in yourself, why would you expect anyone else to?
Hey, I just backed Lockitron, question:

Will Sense work with multiple phones at a time?
I'd be fine with keyless entry over the web if it only worked when I have in my pocket something it also must detect in order to open.

And when I actually do want to open it remotely, I get a call with a code I can enter. In other words, some sort of 2 step authentication.

And I want to be notified by the app every time that door opens if I am not using the app right then to open it.
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Funny that you are doing the very thing that you stated you didn't want to do.
Pro tip: if, like me, you have an ancient app on Aspen and moving it to Cedar sounds like a horrible, horrible transition, just switch it to Bamboo instead. Buys you some more time to put it off until they sunset that too.
Wouldn't you want to be able to find all cell phones that were in proximity to a significant number of the burglaries at the time that they happened?

I can see allowing this -- with a warrant. I'd tempted to say it will stop working after the first few arrests but criminals can be pretty stupid.
Exactly. What the above poster doesn't realize is that he has already been misproven. There are many companies willing to go up against the guys who make the operating system. It's not the end of the world, it's just the addition of strong competitor into the system.
Because the scam works.
Some houses have central heating where one thermostat controls the entire house. My rental which was built 3 years ago has that. That is a case where I think something like nest is affordable and useful.
When they rolled out their new logo, and the new site, people were surprised to learn that the old logo was 25 years old. It didn't look 25 years old, and it stuck around because it never looked dated like their other logos.

Now I'm afraid their new logo and branding is repeating the same mistake as their old ones. It looks like a 2012 logo now, and in ten years it will really look like a 2012 logo.
I agree wholeheartedly with your statement regarding autonomy, mastery and purpose. Paying someone is often not enough to make them feel valued.
Inept designer here. Happy to chat.
Empty cliches from a vacuous internet windbag, it's easy to spout lots of superficial statements without providing any supporting evidence that you have any clue what you are talking about (which you don't seem to).

Clearly you are fooled into thinking you have anything interesting or insightful to say about web design.
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The definition of "significant part" is highly hardware dependent. Several years ago the cutoff point was generally somewhere in the 5-10% range, but I'm sure that has changed.

Also if you're creating indexes, the most powerful underutilized ability is to create concatenated indexes. Index 2 or 3 fields in one index. Those indexes can be used if you are querying the first field only, or the first 2, or the first 3. (Some databases will use them if you are querying the second, but that is much, much less efficient to do.) If you're looking things up by 2 fields sometimes, a concatenated index can really save time, and they are nearly as good as an index on a single field for queries that only need one field.
Note that the most important factor here is that they already were being featured on the front page. Making awesome promo art is a good idea, but if they weren't featured on the front page, this promo image wouldn't make a whole lot of difference.
One thing people don't mention that often with Postgres, but is worth some attention, is the Heap-Only Tuples (HOT) optimization that was added in 8.3. During an UPDATE, Postgres will try to fit the new version of the row on the same page as the old one - if it's able to do this, it means the indices don't have to be updated at all.

So if you're expecting a table to have a heavy UPDATE load it may be a good idea to lower its fillfactor from the default of 100 (for example, ALTER TABLE foo SET (fillfactor = 95);). This means that once a page is 95% full no new rows will be inserted into it, and the remaining 5% will be available for updated rows. HOT will also do "mini-vacuums" on individual pages as needed to free up space.

Of course, it's up to you to decide whether this tradeoff is worth increasing the effective size of your table by ~5%. But even tables with fillfactors at the default of 100 will get some benefit from HOT.

More info: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend...

Edit to add: One caveat is that HOT won't work if you UPDATE a column that is indexed - then, of course, Postgres will have to touch the index.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond. The ability to shutoff technology/features is definitely a plus when you are running a PAAS. I've still got clients that are running large lab operations on NT and also some clients still running extremely old versions of RPG. None have found the incentive to rewrite the software along the way.
Are you a lawyer? Otherwise, you might want to mark your article "IANAL" so as to avoid getting sued by some Bar Association somewhere for verging on giving legalistic advice.

Please. Ordinary folks are allowed to use trademarks in any way they see fit. There's only some narrowly defined "commercial speech" contexts that require an entity to mark "(R)" or "(TM)" or "(C)" on some words, and then only the first time they're used.

I stand by my lawyer-vetted -> Content-free assertion.
Would it be possible to qualify the specific actions that would help growth in usage? I.e. correlating this dataset with specific "marketing" patterns such as use of push notifications, share buttons, etc.

How much does the app quality (ratings) correlate with usage patterns? If we assume that most apps aren't very high quality or don't bring much value to user, these findings would be kind of obvious; users find out that app isn't worth it and stop using it.

Overall, it would be interesting to know which apps break this pattern and why.
You are correct. However high performance applications are usually not brought down by occasional slow operations, but rather by a myriad of more expensive than needed ones.
Yes, I think that's as kind as it can get!
I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that I find the course content to be extraordinarily well designed. The lectures seem to hit all the right notes at the right moments, the homework is exercising the right muscles, and the grading does an excellent job of guiding us towards good test-driven-development and away from mutable state, etc.

In short: thank you, bravo, and encore!
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You don't pay Google for Android.
It would be nice to have a program that analyzed postgresql statistics and queries and made observations/recommendations. This might be much easier to do with the new pg_stat_statements extension in 9.2.
Some rental properties use 4 digits. On his own house my friend uses proper lock with 10 digits, for example.
What difference does that make? The metronomes and table are a closed system, so the fact that energy is transferred between them is moot.

I think lutusp's explanation makes a lot more sense: that when the metronomes sync up, they're at a lower energy level. They spend energy to decrease entropy.
This is actually a surprisingly simple approach. I need to try that. It might even work. (leans back waiting for the 'nice blog post, kept me procrastinating' comments)
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I was also just reading an article about how 37 Signals prevents its employees from working more than 4 days per week during the summer (here in SF that should be during May/June and Sept/Oct because who wants to spend an extra day not working in the foggy cold? I digress).

How many people already have a volunteer opportunity that they can plug into? Seems not so easy to do, but perhaps that's the point.
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So in this scenario, does it also mean that the shares are now worth less too? As in they are now worth $3/share ($10M/3,000,000) whereas before they were worth $10?
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No. I'm saying that Russian market has chosen solution that's not necessary is the best one. Again, maybe I'm wrong.
Can you explain what you mean by "break down" in this context?
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The integration with other things is a big deal fwiw. I'm currently playing with NFC and doing things like "when I tap my phone on my night stand, make sure all the doors are locked and turn off all the lights except for the bedroom"

We're headed towards the Internet of Things but right now they're all sort of talking with their own software. A house with the Nest thermometer and the Lockitron lock won't be able to execute on the scenario I described above -- and if you're a homeowner you may want to think more long term than investing in one-off solutions for every latest thing a chip goes in to.
This is wrong. PHP is awesome for webdev because it's almost a framework itself.

while every other language treat HTTP and cookies and everything else as text streams php always had functions to deal with all that 'web stuff'

moving it to mobile is just pointless.

mobile need a PHP of its own. Something that incorporate all aspects of mobile in the language design... not sure what it would be
Probably not NFC though. You need a much smaller distance to read NFC (or a much bigger antenna). I doubt it could read a NFC keycard through the thickness of the door. I'm sure all that metal in the lock would act as a great RF shield too. It uses more power than BT4, and all devices that have NFC also have BT4 so it probably wouldn't make sense to power both.
This article is perfect example of PR Speak passed on as news.

in the article head, it says "PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile" but then nowhere in articles author mentions about this except in the end where it says "Coming soon"!

WTH?
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That was a horrible argument. In short it said that some people can make rape jokes because we all know they don't like rape. But Tosh... hmmm... he kind of looks like a rapist so we're not too sure about him... no rape jokes for Tosh. What kind of dumb shit logic is that?
Actually you do, unless you're Amazon. For access to the Google Play store, GMail, Maps, Navigation, Youtube etc. etc. Those are neither free nor Free.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/21/andy_pad_chief_admits_...

It's very telling that most people do not know this.

Google sent a C&D to the Cyanogen Mod folks for bundling these apps. If you install CM, you have to download the app store app from someone committing copyright infringement.
One person can have 2-3 phones with different SIM's.
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I'd have read the description of the tool, thought 'eh, cool', and clicked away if it weren't for the absurdly cute instructions for installing the bookmarklet. Probably one of the best, tongue-in-cheek pieces of tutorial I've seen in a while.

Your tutorial made me smile! How rare is that?
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Kudos to the team. This is not a solution for everyone, but there are places (Airbnb, shared access, renter, maybe hotel) where this concept could be invaluable. Even if not for my main door I could use it on the side door to allow multiple access for my family and kids.
This.

I'm not sure GP understands the difference between company finances and personal fortune?
I'm @derek on Twitter, so I have the same issue. If App.net ever got popular, these names would have the exact same issue. So, that's not a compelling reason to switch.
Thanks. Please see my response to thinkbohemian's comments. My point is that using a PAAS illustrates some sacrifices a customer has to make if they've traditionally been accustomed to hosting their own infrastructure. Some customers are simply not aware of expectations they might need to change. Nothing more or less than that.

I'm not sure bob@heroku.com helps me here unless I was previously introduced to Bob from a notification of a general support e-mail. Again, I'm speaking without paid Heroku experience here but to me it seems the equivalent of a "Hiya guys!" greeting. Heroku is owned by Salesforce which describes itself as an "enterprise cloud computing company."
>Quora is a business. They are not making any money. Like Twitter, they can only hope to make money if they grow big enough. If the only way to grow requires pissing off existing users (or developers, in Twitter's case), the choice is clear.

I'm struggling to see how growth is going to make them more profitable. While there's a bit of constant overhead, at that kind of scale I'd expect most expenditures to scale linearly or faster with number of users, and I don't see how more users will make income scale faster than linear.